Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark recently published a letter calling on Americans to voluntary “self-restraint” on gun ownership as part of their response to rising gun violence.

Pope Francis’ peace envoy to Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, was finishing his two-day visit to Ukraine June 6. He met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid breaking news of the destruction of a critical dam and hydroelectric power plant along the front lines in southern Ukraine that Zelenskyy blamed on “Russian terrorists.”

Pope Francis returned to the hospital for a brief medical checkup June 6, the Vatican said.

With Cardinal Sepe’s birthday, just over two-thirds of the currently eligible voters were made cardinals by Pope Francis.

June marks the beginning of the “Year of Parish Revival,” the second year of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ three-year plan for a National Eucharistic Revival.